Slow FireWire HDD Performance

[bobber205]

Suddenly, out of the blue, my firewire HDD will perform very poorly. If I reboot or unplug the HDD or something, it'll go back up.

Any ideas?

 

[Consultant]

Might be dying. Backup data while you can.

For all external drives, after you eject, you should allow somewhere around 5-10 seconds for the drive to spin down before using the power switch to turn it off. Doing that reduces problems.